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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions.
This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization.
Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

New York, NY - A significant victory was made for the future of the jaguar last week in Tegucigalpa with the establishment of Honduras' first ever National Jaguar Conservation Plan by the Honduran government and wild cat conservation group, Panthera.

On March 1st, Panthera's CEO and jaguar expert, Dr. Alan Rabinowitz, and the Minister of Honduras' National Institute for the Conservation and Development of Forests, Protected Areas and Wildlife (ICF), José Trinidad Suazo Bulnes, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) launching the National Jaguar Conservation Plan and initiating a stronger commitment to conserving jaguars in Honduras and securing the Jaguar Corridor. Located in the heart of Central America, Panthera's scientists recently confirmed that Honduras serves as a crucial link in the Jaguar Corridor, which seeks to connect and protect jaguar populations from Mexico to Argentina to ensure their genetic diversity and future survival.

ike black colored wolves, black jaguars are often found in the wild

At the ceremony, after a two-week tour of Panthera's jaguar conservation projects in Honduras, Dr. Rabinowitz stated that "Today's signing signifies Honduras' commitment to the jaguar, recognition of the country's role within the Jaguar Corridor, and a significant step forward in conserving their incredible natural heritage." Attendees of this historic event included a representative of the office of Honduras's Vice President, Victor Hugo Barnica, and representatives from the United Nations, World Bank, USAID, PROCORREDOR, CATIE, and Proyecto ECOSISTEMAS.

jaguars once ranged as far North as San Francisco and east to the Carolinas

Through this new partnership, Panthera and the Honduran government will collaborate to strategically shape the development of land in and around the Jaguar Corridor that benefits both the country's economic growth and the connectivity of the Corridor, including the use of wildlife underpasses and forest protection in areas of agricultural development, like oil palm plantations.

"The Jaguar Corridor Initiative is a plan for how the America's largest and most iconic cat, the jaguar, can live within a human-dominated landscape," said Panthera's Jaguar Program Executive Director, Dr. Howard Quigley. ICF Minister Suazo also stated that, "With the help and support from key allies such as Panthera, the Honduran Government is already moving forward with the goals and actions contemplated in the National Plan. We visualized a plan that is alive and whose results will soon be evident and reflected on a better life quality for our people and better use of our natural resources."

Panthera's jaguar scientists, including Country Program Director Franklin Castañeda, will continue to define the Corridor in Honduras using camera traps, field surveys, and interviews with local people that identify key populations of jaguars and connectivity between these populations. Bridging partnerships with local communities, Panthera's Honduran team will also continue to train ranchers in key human-jaguar conflict mitigation techniques and assess the vulnerability and threats facing the country's jaguars. This conservation work is being carried out in three critical regions of Honduras' Corridor, including Jeanette Kawas National Park, Pico Bonito National Park and the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve.

Dr. Quigley, also stated, "This is the third MOU Panthera has signed with a Latin American government, and embodies a call to action for all other Central and South American countries to join with Panthera to ensure a future for this far-ranging species. Jaguars don't observe political boundaries - their future will rely on us and all of the 18 jaguar range states to work together and to make a commitment, like Honduras has just done, to conserve them."

Today, Panthera is partnering with governments, NGOs and local communities in 13 of the 18 jaguar range states.

Two Massachusetts Eastern Coyotes at their den site

Eastern Wolf in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada

Aldo Leopold--3 quotes from his SAN COUNTY ALMANAC

"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."

Aldo Leopold

"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."

Aldo Leopold

''To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."

Wildlife Rendezvous

Like so many conscientious hunters and anglers come to realize, good habitat with our full suite of predators and prey make for healthy and productive living............Teddy Roosevelt depicted at a "WILDLIFE RENDEZVOUS"

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